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Discovery Attributes

For many attributes only the value that is retrieved during discovery is stored in the database. No further polling or processing, such as an evaluation of a baseline, is performed.

The Indexes and Names attributes must exist for all metric families. The Descriptions attribute is optional.

<Attribute name="Indexes" type="ObjectID[]"  />
<Attribute name="Names" type="String"  />
<Attribute name="Descriptions" type="String"  />

The metric families supporting Hierarchy must include these attributes:

<Attribute name="ItemUniqueIDs" type="String" />
<Attribute name="ParentUniqueIDs" type="String" />